The Halfway Mark

A candlepin bowling alley owner.

An investigator solving a decades-old crime.

An extraordinary, ordinary couple.

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As a series of character studies, its brilliant: needy tweens, restless young mothers, conflicted lovers.

Luiselli initiates a reckoning in her new novel that pulses with urgency and lingers with timelessness.

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Elizabeth McCracken, BowlawayCredit: Ecco

Ecco

Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Knopf

Exhalation by Ted Chiang

Knopf

Chris Rush, The Light YearsPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children ArchivePublisher: Knopf

Knopf

Bryan Washington, LotPublisher: Riverhead Books

Riverhead Books

Normal People

Hogarth

Say-Nothing

Doubleday

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Henry Holt and Co.

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